Flag Institute member Andy Strangeway is coordinating the competition to design and select the new flag for County Durham.
As he and others have pointed out, County Durham is now the only historic northern county not to have its own flag…
Lets hope we can rectify that soon!
There appears to be one already…
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/durham-flag-to-fly-at-department-for-communities-and-local-government
it’s even in the CCC badge. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/DurhamCCC.png
Some notes on the history and development of British county flags can be found at http://britishcountyflags.wordpress.com/